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With knowing, consensus with Confucius

posted by brad wong on 2009.08.12, under china, confucius, history, journalism
Image source: Chinese American Association of Solano County

Image source: Chinese American Association of Solano County

 

Confucius, the Chinese sage who traveled throughout China offering advice, doesn’t get a ton of attention in the daily blogosphere in the United States.

Stellar athletes or glamorous movie stars can top the list.

For one thing, as some young people might say and type: He. Looks. Way. Too. Old.

And what’s going on with his hair? And that robe? Hasn’t he heard of Barneys?

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I want to chime in on one area with which I agree with the wise, though controversial, philosopher from Qufu in Shandong province: Admitting what you know and what you don’t.

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